AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Yusuf Mayet
Yusuf is a senior solutions architect on the public sector team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is based in Johannesburg. He works with education institutions to modernise all aspects of their mission delivery. He helps them use AWS to make data-driven decisions to save money and resources, enable researchers to accelerate time to science, and power their educational technology system.
Meeting the challenges of South African higher education on AWS
Many South African institutions of higher learning are suffering from underfunding, which affects their ability to remediate these issues. Students in South Africa face numerous challenges as well. Statistics from StatsSA report a 45.5 percent unemployment rate among young individuals (aged 15–34 years). And limited educational opportunities and economic disadvantages are the primary factors driving elevated rates of unemployment. This post highlights the impact that reliable and efficient education systems can have on reducing the challenges facing higher education in South Africa.
How to scale and optimize Moodle LMS on AWS
Moodle is an open-source learning management system (LMS). Moodle has more than 300 million users worldwide across both academic and enterprise organizations, and is the world’s most widely used learning platform. There are many ways to get started with Moodle on AWS. In this blog post, I focus on how to scale and optimize Moodle once you are already serving students. In this case, you may need to deal with migrating data from an existing platform and making sure the new environment caters to thousands of students, and still be cost-effective — we cover additional considerations in this walkthrough.